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Building reliable, mission critical applications is not a simple task. Without the right tools, development teams are very likely to invest too much time in building the solution while there is no certainty about the quality of the software. Join us on this event and listen how two Visual Studio Team System product managers from the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond give you an overview of the Visual Studio Team System environment. Get to know how Visual Studio Team System enables software development teams (from project managers, architects, developers to testers) to work more closely together and to be more productive than ever before.
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How Visual Studio Team System brings predictability and visibility to your projects
Organizations today need to struggle to accurately estimate the cost and duration of their software projects; these projects are often 'black boxes' with little visibility, and business leaders must struggle to interpret them to make their decisions and adjustments.
This session will use a scenario-based approach to illustrate how Visual Studio 2005 Team System adds predictability and visibility into your projects eliminating nasty surprises and helping you partner your development efforts with your business. In this session, we will visit an online retailer of sporting goods called 'AdventureWorks'. This fictional company is approaching their most critical time period - the Christmas season.
Management at 'AdventureWorks' realizes that they first need to complete their current content refreshment project and then undertake new efforts to make the site more scalable for handling business during this period. How much will this development effort cost, and what resources can they allocate for this project? Will the updated website be ready on time?
Visual Studio 2005 Team System was designed with the belief that better project information enables better IT decision making and better IT forecasting. Visual Studio 2005 Team System also brings an unprecedented degree of visibility into the application development process by bringing together data from all aspects of the software development lifecycle. As a business decision maker, this single repository of data allows you to view your project as a whole, make comparisons, predict quality, schedule and cost measures.
AdventureWorks leverages Visual Studio 2005 Team System and SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence to plan their development efforts to meet their business objectives. |
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Building Mission Critical Software
Over the past decade, we have been witness to several spectacular software failures. In 1998, a division by zero error brought a Navy warship to a standstill. In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because the decision to use the Metric system versus the Imperial system was not communicated to the team. These two examples illustrate the wide spectrum of ways an organization's attempt to build to robust and reliable software can be undermined. A miscalculation by a single developer can bring an entire ship to a stand still. The lifework of an accomplished team can be ruined because a simple decision was not communicated.
Visual Studio 2005 Team System was designed from the ground up to provide a collaborative environment to help teams communicate and work productively. This session will illustrate how each discipline, everyone from Project Managers, to Architects, to Developers and Testers benefits from technology designed to make them more productive, as well as technology that helps them work together. |
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Visual Studio Team System Extensibility
Being able to extend and customize your tools is one of the most valuable assets you have. This enables you to make them your own, bend them to your company needs and use them more effectively. Visual Studio 2005 Team System has been built to allow you to extend and customize nearly every feature, every role and most importantly allow it to integrate into your existing tools. The session will focus on extending the core roles, creating DSL's, customizing testing and analysis, modify process and methodologies and even using the extensive Web Services platform of Team Foundation Server, plug in tools which exist in your organization today. |
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Adopting Visual Studio Team System
How does your organization adopt Visual Studio 2005 Team System? What are the steps from migrating current source control systems, moving project information, adopting or extending process and methodologies and migrating your current projects into VSTS. This session will overview common installation tasks, pitfalls and migration techniques. Included will be a case study on how the 500-person development team behind Visual Studio 2005 Team System, spread across 5 geographic locations has been using this to technology from almost day 1. |
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Be part of the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Tour - register now. |
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| •London |
19.09.2005 |
| •Oslo |
21.09.2005 |
| •Brussels |
23.09.2005 |
| •Geneva |
26.09.2005 |
| •Zurich |
28.09.2005 |
| •Budapest |
30.09.2005 |
| •Cairo |
03.10.2006 |
| •Johannesburg |
06.10.2205 |
| •Lisbon |
10.10.2005 |
| •Rome |
12.10.2005 |
| •Reykjavik |
14.10.2005 |
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Michael Leworthy
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Ajay Sudan
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Bindia Hallauer
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Eric Lee
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